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Nursery school children in Verona, Italy, take part in challenging outdoor trips to develop their confidence and all-round skills.
Using light and dark as a medium for discovery and learning is well established in settings. Nicole Weinstein suggests resources that will maximise opportunities to explore and investigate.
Encouraging children to use their bodies in any way they want stimulates their physical and brain development and has a noticeable beneficial effect on behaviour, writes Annette Rawstrone
The benefits of providing risky activities to children and keeping their parents on board are explained by Sylvie Gambell and Ben Hasan.
Go back in time for children to get a sense of themselves and to explore concepts with activities across the early years curriculum suggested by Sheila Ebbutt.
Observe how absorbed the children can become in particular schemas when you provide resources and activities suggested by Diana Lawton.
Dolls happily lend themselves to use in extended play across all areas of early years provision, and their houses make the perfect resource for domestic and construction activities, says Judith...
Joint winner: Sunbeams Day Nursery Leeds
Providing opportunities for active outdoor play significantly increases children's agility and it need not be expensive, says Julie Mountain.
The conclusions of the Good Childhood Inquiry's final report are not borne out in early years settings' practice, argues Pat Gordon-Smith.